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Where Reality and Fantasy Collide-Prolonged Fever to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
Children (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Paediatrics, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania.
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) or factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA) is a bizarre psychiatric entity, consisting of the fabrication of symptoms and alteration of laboratory tests by a caregiver. It is considered a serious form of child abuse. Alarm signs are frequent medical visits and strange symptoms that are never objectified during hospitalization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSarcoidosis in north African people: about 35 cases.
Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis
December 2024
Pulmonology department, Hedi Chaker university hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax. Sfax University.
Background And Aim: Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown cause characterized by the formation of non-caseating granulomatous inflammation in various organs, mainly lungs and intrathoracic lymph nodes. Its clinical and paraclinical presentation can vary from mild to life-threatening. Our objective is to study the clinical, paraclinical and evolution profile of mediastino-pulmonary sarcoidosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of recurrence of risk factors after transcatheter bronchial artery embolization for hemoptysis.
Ann Saudi Med
December 2024
From the Department of Interventional Treatment, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
Background: As a proven and preferred technique for hemoptysis, bronchial artery embolization (BAE) cannot avoid the possibility of postoperative recurrence; however, few studies have examined the causes of hemoptysis recurrence after BAE.
Objectives: Identify the risk factors for hemoptysis recurrence after BAE treatment.
Design: Retrospective.
Diagnostic performance of assays for urgent MPO, PR3 and GBM autoantibodies in suspected vasculitis.
Pathology
November 2024
Department of Laboratory Immunology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
Rapid testing for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) and glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies may assist in the early diagnosis of small vessel vasculitis. Clinical utility of urgent testing of these antibodies in an Australian context is not known. Our retrospective study examined the urgent test requests for ANCA and/or GBM antibodies performed over a 2-year period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSevere and Persistent Thrombocytopenia in an Adolescent Girl Following Dengue Infection Manifesting As Pulmonary Hemorrhage.
Cureus
October 2024
Pediatrics, Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, IND.
Thrombocytopenia is common in the critical phase of dengue due to decreased production from the bone marrow and increased peripheral destruction of platelets. Platelet count improves with resolution of the disease. However, further evaluation is required if thrombocytopenia persists for a longer period following dengue infection.
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